Sibi Program for OPG - First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills

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Sibi Program for OPG - First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills
Sibi Employment and Training
Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
1. Title of Initiative
2. Delivery Organization (Name)
 Sector
 Not for Profit
 First Nations, Métis, Inuit
☐ Business
☐ Other (specify)
3. Contact Details
4. Website or Other Information Source
5. Funder(s)
 Amount of funding
6. Other Partners involved
Partner name
Moose Cree First Nation
Ontario Power Generation
(OPG)
Building Trade Unions (BTU)
Kiewit-Alarie, A Partnership
Description
Sibi Employment and Training
Sibi Employment and Training
Kim Radbourne
Moose Cree First Nations (MCFN) Employment
Coordinator - LMRP
705-658-2117
[email protected]
Not currently
Initial funding:
 Aboriginal skills and employment partnership
 MTCU – Ministry of Provincial Colleges and
Universities
Ongoing funding:
 Corporate funding
$4.5 million (first 2 years of pilot funding)
Role
Partner with OPG for the
Lower Mattagami project,
Sibi Board member, Sibi
Executive Director/ Lower
Mattagami Employment &
Training Coordinator,
support staff
Partner with Moose Cree
First Nation and board
member on Sibi, holds
agreements with Taykwa
Tagamou Nation (TTN),
Métis Nation of Ontario
(MNO) and Building Trade
Unions (BTUs), and a
contract with Kiewit-Alarie
Represent trade positions on
Lower Mattagami project,
cooperate in preferential
placements and registration
of new members
Board member on Sibi,
Responsibilities
Program coordination and oversight,
program delivery, clients supports
Program coordination and oversight
Interviews and testing and pretraining for designating
apprenticeship levels
Identifies employment opportunities
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
Employer
Sodexo
Employer
Advance Security
Employer
Mushkegowuk Employment
and Training
Detour Gold Steering
Committee
Inlink
Taykwa Tagamou Nation
(TTN)
Funding Agency
Métis Nation of Ontario
(MNO)– Timmins Office
Board member on Sibi
Employer
Board member on Sibi,
client support staff
7. Third Party Contractors involved
Name
Role
Northern College
Pre-training/ Readiness
program
Office Skills
Carpentry Trade school
(levels 1, 2)
Electrical Trade school
College Boreal
Warehouse Training
Quality Assurance
(American Concrete
Institute)
Niska
Cement Truck
G1 Licensing
Heavy Equipment Refresher
Various Health & Safety
Operating Engineers Training Haul Truck
Institute
Heavy Equipment
AZ program
Mobile Crane Level 1
Tower Crane Level 1
Infrastructure Health and
Various courses to qualify a
Safety
Certified Health and Safety
Description
on project and assists to maximize
targeted training-to-employment
program, provides on-site training
Program coordination and oversight
Provides feedback in regards to pretraining curriculum
Hire clients through the program
Cooperates for advanced skills
training for underemployed workers
Provides feedback in regards to pretraining curriculum
Hire clients through the program
Asset holder, flow-through body for
the region
Coordinate programming in
common areas
Hire clients through the program
Employment coordinators referring
clients to Sibi
Program coordination and oversight
Employment coordinators referring
clients to Sibi
Program coordination and oversight
Responsibilities
Created training program for
individual.
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
Description
Officer
Ironworkers Union
Pre-training and Reinforcing
Rodbuster Level 1
Carpenters Union
Interviewing, testing and
onsite formwork program
Sault College
Ironworkers Structure level
1 and 2
Plumber level 1
United Association of
Interviewing, testing,
Plumbers &Pipefitters
apprentice registration
Millwrights
Interviewing, testing,
apprentice registration
Labourers International
Interviewing, testing,
Union
apprentice registration,
safety training
8. Location (Name of city, community, etc.)
Moose Factory
 Urban
9.
 Location Type
 Rural
 Fly-in (accessible only by air)
 First Nations, Métis, Inuit community
☐ Prison
☐ Other:
 Scope of Program
☐ National
☐ Provincial/territorial
 Local
☐ Special interest group (in-house program)
10. Target Audience
 Age
☐ Youth (15-25)
 Adult
 Other (specify): Adult 18+
 Male
 Gender
 Female
☐ Other (Specify):
 First Nations
 Group
☐ Inuit
 Métis
11. Participant Eligibility Criteria:
 Identified EA First Nation community member
 Adult: age 18+
12. Year Program/Initiative Started
November 2009
13. Year Program/Initiative Ended
Ongoing
 Why did the program end?
14. Description of Initiative
Sibi provides job counseling, work readiness,
academic upgrading/Literacy/Essential Skills,
 Overview
training-to-employment, work placement, work
transitioning, skills advancement and apprentice
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
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15.
16.
17.
18.
Topics covered
Duration of program (# of sessions)
 length of each session
Number of times offered per year
Number of participants per intake
Completion rate (%)
Which Essential Skills are covered
(check all that are covered)
Description
coordination services to FN and Métis persons in the
Lower Moose River Basin area (northeastern
Ontario). Sibi provides preferential hiring services
for the Lower Mattagami project as well as a general
service link to other programs, services and
employment opportunities within its region.
Example pathways that Sibi clients who are
unemployed or underemployed can follow are
outlined below:
1. Individual with required experience &
certification
 Direct to job & union applications
2. Individual with experience but no formal
certification, or lacking some certification
 Training to acquire certification(s)
3. Individual with training but limited/no
experience
 Work placement
4. Individuals who have an avid interest,
commitment and aptitude to pursue a trade
but have neither the training, certification or
experience
 Assessment, skills training, academic
upgrading, job readiness
Work readiness:
 Goal setting
 Self-awareness
 Work ethics
Training to employment programs
Apprenticeship support
Workplace literacy for local businesses
Ongoing – not applicable
Ongoing – not applicable
Continuous intake
Continuous intake
75%
 Reading Text
 Document Use
 Numeracy
 Writing
 Oral Communication
 Working with Others
 Thinking Skills
 Computer Use
 Continuous Learning
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
19. Main Objectives
20. Does the program include special emphasis
on: (check all that apply)
21. Type of Intervention: (Check more than one
if applicable)
22. Type of delivery approach:
(check all that apply)
23. Staff/Practitioner Training and Background
24. Tools and Resources Used to Implement
program (e.g., assessment tools, video tapes
of practice, etc.)
Description
 Maximize employment at the Lower
Mattagami Project
 Apprenticeship completion across the trades
 Culture
 Language
 Tradition
 Awareness Building
 Assessment of skills
 Development of Learning Plan
 Training or Skill Development
☐ Tool Development
☐ Other:
☐ Lecture
 Seminar, discussion
 Personal reflection-awareness training
 Project/Theme Based
 Skill practice by participants in sessions
 Skill practice by participants in work place
 Interview/consultation with stakeholders
☐ Other:
Literacy instructor – 10+ years’ experience
Trained in Guiding Circles instruction
Training with Ontario Native Literacy Coalition
Background in teaching/education
Outgoing, comfortable talking with people
(counsellor)
Guiding Circles, Gift of Self Esteem, specifically
developed training-to-employment programs for
non-apprenticeship positions
Assessment
 Entry-Level Apprenticeship Aptitude Sample
Test to illustrate the types of core skills
necessary for success in the academic
portions of trades training includes links to
additional self-testing resources
http://www.tradesbc.org/toolkit/aptitude.ht
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 Essential Skills for Ontario’s Tradespeople
research Essential Skills for 53 Red Seal
trades. Take online assessments to see how
your skills measure up and build your skills
with customized learning plans using free
online materials
http://www.csc.essentialskillsgroup.com
 Trades and Apprenticeship Exam Bank offers
trade-specific sample exams there is a
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
Description
subscription fee
http://trades.exambank.com/index.html
Training Delivery Resources
 Trades Essentials: More skills… More
opportunities Essential Skills Manuals
The Trade Essentials program was designed
to help clients improve their Essential Skills
so they are better prepared to advance in
their chosen career. The goal is to provide a
seamless learning path to trades
certification.
These manuals include a guide for assessing
existing Essential Skills; curriculum
framework and guidelines; and a guide for
the Essential Skills curriculum instructor. The
focus is on one of the following 13 trades.
The authors have also included information
about adult learning and trades education in
general.
Carpenter - http://library.nald.ca/item/9414
Welder Trade Essentials http://library.nald.ca/item/8930

SkillPlan: List of Publications
resources available include Essential Skills
lessons, guides to developing lesson plans,
trade-specific information, and more
http://www.skillplan.ca/tools-andpublications
25. Difficulties or Barriers encountered
Coordination of service delivery in the region
26. Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms. Please provide details on how you assess the following:
Annual planning and review, annual audit and report
 Achieving general program goals
Support workers report
 Tracking program adherence by
participants
Case Management by Accountability Resource
 Tracking program adherence by Staff
Management database
By training program. Licensing, employer
 Assessing participant skill attainment
evaluation, demonstration of skills through
interviewing and assessment.
Employer evaluations/feedback of trainees upon
 Assessing participant knowledge
hire. Was the curriculum in training to employment
acquisition
program relevant?
Life skills program evaluation, follow up surveys.
 Assessing changes in participant
attitudes
Traditional counselling onsite retention program.
 Program Impact including key results
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Essential Skill Program or Initiative Elements
or outcomes
27. Lesson Learned
28.
Reporting (what and to whom)
Description
Continuous assessment and improvement.
Evaluations by training program and follow-ups
upon terminations.
Lack of LBS referral organizations in area therefore
Sibi provides Essential Skills curriculum throughout
programming. Initial intake, trade school
preparedness, workplace training for skills
advancement once employed.
Reports to Sibi Employment and Training Board
 Financial reports
 Statistics
o # of clients
o Graduation rates
o # of people seeking employment
o # of placements
Weekly meetings with Kiewit-Alarie to discuss who is
coming into the system and who is employed with
the contractor and what supports or additional
training they may need to be successful.
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